Friday, June 17, 2016

“So I’m interested in
philosophy insofar as it’s practical and it makes you feel more alive. And it
makes you more open-minded. That’s really the only way it interests me.” – David
O. Russell on I Heart Huckabees

Brad Stand (Jude Law): “How am I not myself?”

I'm not sure why anyone would elect to give writer/director
David O Russell actual money in order to make a screwball farce about searching
for meaning, featuring an existential detective agency and competing
Philosophical schools of thought, starring a murderer's row of acting talent,
and containing a bizarre cameo by Shania Twain - but someone did. Someone,
somewhere, read Russell's insanely ambitious/flat-out insane script and thought
"I need to finance this film!” That person is probably living in a box off
La Cienega Boulevard now, mumbling to themselves about chemtrails. If so, their
sacrifice was worth it because I Heart
Huckabees is amazing; a bizarro cinematic unicorn grooving on its
own brand of bug-nuts - a film that's simultaneously deadly serious in its
intentions and wholly committed to being absolutely f*cking ridiculous.

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